Descriptive and Theoretical Study of the Language of ME Patience [VI]

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This paper is the sixth part of the author's recent investigation along with his exhaustive and theoretical studies of Middle English Syntax for the purpose of offering clues of better understanding and appreciating Middle English Literature. Here is the descriptive and theoretical observation and explanation of Miscellaneous Behaviours of the syntactical units neither taken nor explained in the previous papers. In this paper the behaviour of per and per (e appearing in ME Patience are exhaustively treated. The developmental process of per and per (e --- as Deictic Adverb of Location or Position, Relative Adverb and as Expletive/Introductory per introducing Existential Sentence --- is clearly ascertained, though sometimes of somewhat clumsy features. To supplement the syntactic explanation of the sample data, some sample data already ascertained in the author's previous researches of ME Cleanness are to be mentioned in this paper. For ME Alliterative Cleanness and Patience are estimated to be composed by the same anonymous poet --- so-called the Pearl-Poet --- on the ground that both poems are collected in a small quarto volume in ff. 37-126 in the British Museum, Cotton Nero A. x^2, and the author already inspected and verified the authorship of the Pearl- Poet statistically and stochastically.
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2004-03-31